SAM Advanced Management Journal articles from September 2008

SAM Advanced Management Journal archives from September 2008

"Did you shoot anyone?" A practioner's guide to combat veteran workplace and classroom reintegration.
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "What the Hell Happened to Terry?" (1) Nothing seems out of the ordinary this day at the California-based health care firm. On the fourth floor, the marketing staff goes about their business as warm autumn...

Stategies for regional innovation: using the Baldrige criteria to develop an organizational framework.
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The challenge of bringing leaders together from across sectors and geographic locations to address issues from a broad, regional perspective can be dauntig. However, an effective organizational structure for such...

Leadership in the apparel manufacturing environment: an analysis based on the multi-factor leadership questionnaire.(Report)
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction One of the most dramatic social changes of the past 50 years has been the reduction of manufacturing employment in the affluent democracies of the world (Brady and Denniston, 2006). Nowhere has this...

Empowering women's leadership: a case study of Bangladeshi microcredit business.
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction and Background A thriving global economy is linked to reduction of poverty. Microcredit loan programs have affected the economies of many developing countries. Many of these loans are funded by...

A new approach to examining whistle-blowing: the influence of cognitions and anger.(Report)
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction Articles about whistle-blowing continue to appear on a regular basis in the popular press as well as in managerial publications and the academic literature (e.g., Delikat, 2007; Leonard, 2007; Rehg,...

Bringing lead-user innovations to the market: research and management implications.(Report)
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The high failure rates of a substantial number of innovations in the marketplace are of concern to both researchers and managers. These failure rates represent a multi-billion dollar waste of scarce economic...